More than four decades after the New Hollywood films of the ’60s and ’70s hit screens and became enshrined as a near-mythological period of artistic excellence in American cinema, the era’s attributes also become increasingly contrasted with current American cinema.
Nonconformity, provocation and experimentation were mainstream. Today, those qualities aren’t selling movie tickets but instead driving streamer subscriptions. And the big hits are all characterized by the packaged goods franchise hits that dominate box office to the almost total exclusion of personal cinema.
Which is a long explanation of why awards season is more essential than ever.
As someone who lived through and loved the New Hollywood films and filmmakers, this is the time of year when the hunger for the ambitious telling of difficult stories is sated.
In addition to Todd Field’s wonderful and already much-celebrated “Tár,” which has evoked positive comparisons to the best of New Hollywood giant Stanley Kubrick,...
Nonconformity, provocation and experimentation were mainstream. Today, those qualities aren’t selling movie tickets but instead driving streamer subscriptions. And the big hits are all characterized by the packaged goods franchise hits that dominate box office to the almost total exclusion of personal cinema.
Which is a long explanation of why awards season is more essential than ever.
As someone who lived through and loved the New Hollywood films and filmmakers, this is the time of year when the hunger for the ambitious telling of difficult stories is sated.
In addition to Todd Field’s wonderful and already much-celebrated “Tár,” which has evoked positive comparisons to the best of New Hollywood giant Stanley Kubrick,...
- 1/10/2023
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched pilot fund for children’s programming.
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched £57m pilot fund for children’s programming.
The BBC’s John Knowles and Hesham Sabry and Disney Channel Emea’s Harriet Williams are among six hires at the Young Audiences Content Fund (Yacf), which officially launched yesterday and is now open for applications.
Knowles will be the Yacf’s executive – production, while Williams takes on the same post in a development capacity. Sabry will be business affairs executive.
The other hires comprise Gill Biddle as project manager,...
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched £57m pilot fund for children’s programming.
The BBC’s John Knowles and Hesham Sabry and Disney Channel Emea’s Harriet Williams are among six hires at the Young Audiences Content Fund (Yacf), which officially launched yesterday and is now open for applications.
Knowles will be the Yacf’s executive – production, while Williams takes on the same post in a development capacity. Sabry will be business affairs executive.
The other hires comprise Gill Biddle as project manager,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Jesse Whittock Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched pilot fund for children’s programming.
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched £57m pilot fund for children’s programming.
The BBC’s John Knowles and Hesham Sabry and Disney Channel Emea’s Harriet Williams are among six hires at the Young Audiences Content Fund (Yacf), which officially launched yesterday and is now open for applications.
Knowles will be the Yacf’s executive – production, while Williams takes on the same post in a development capacity. Sabry will be business affairs executive.
The other hires comprise Gill Biddle as project manager,...
Several industry executives have joined the BFI’s newly-launched £57m pilot fund for children’s programming.
The BBC’s John Knowles and Hesham Sabry and Disney Channel Emea’s Harriet Williams are among six hires at the Young Audiences Content Fund (Yacf), which officially launched yesterday and is now open for applications.
Knowles will be the Yacf’s executive – production, while Williams takes on the same post in a development capacity. Sabry will be business affairs executive.
The other hires comprise Gill Biddle as project manager,...
- 4/2/2019
- by Jesse Whittock Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Studiocanal has launched the first full-length trailer for Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, the Aardman sequel in which a visitor from a far off galaxy arrives in the quiet town of Mossingham.
Pic is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, produced by Paul Kewley and written by Mark Burton and Jon Brown, with executive producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park, Carla Shelley and David Sproxton. Voice cast includes Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour.
The 2015 first movie grossed $106M globally, including $19M in the U.S. Backer Studiocanal will distribute in UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand in autumn 2019. Lionsgate has U.S. rights.
In a surprise move, Bert Habets, the CEO of Euro media giant Rtl, has resigned. Thomas Rabe will take the reins while also continuing in his role as CEO of Rtl-owner Bertelsmann. According to Reuters, Habets is leaving for family...
Pic is directed by Richard Phelan and Will Becher, produced by Paul Kewley and written by Mark Burton and Jon Brown, with executive producers Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, Peter Lord, Nick Park, Carla Shelley and David Sproxton. Voice cast includes Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Kate Harbour.
The 2015 first movie grossed $106M globally, including $19M in the U.S. Backer Studiocanal will distribute in UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand in autumn 2019. Lionsgate has U.S. rights.
In a surprise move, Bert Habets, the CEO of Euro media giant Rtl, has resigned. Thomas Rabe will take the reins while also continuing in his role as CEO of Rtl-owner Bertelsmann. According to Reuters, Habets is leaving for family...
- 4/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has been in theatres for little over a week now, and Gareth Edwards’ spinoff – the first of Disney and Lucasfilm’s planned anthology series – is doing gangbusters, having blown past $400 million worldwide just yesterday.
Angled as a prequel to Star Wars: A New Hope, the spinoff has struck a chord with longtime fans of the beloved space opera for its mix of nostalgia and cutting-edge special effects, particularly when it comes to that jaw-dropping battle scene on Scarif. No spoilers here, but if you’re wanting a concise recap of Rogue One‘s best moments, look no further than our latest feature.
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It all goes to show that Rogue One was moulded with tremendous craft and care, much of which stems from Gareth Edwards and his unabiding love for all things Star Wars.
Angled as a prequel to Star Wars: A New Hope, the spinoff has struck a chord with longtime fans of the beloved space opera for its mix of nostalgia and cutting-edge special effects, particularly when it comes to that jaw-dropping battle scene on Scarif. No spoilers here, but if you’re wanting a concise recap of Rogue One‘s best moments, look no further than our latest feature.
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It all goes to show that Rogue One was moulded with tremendous craft and care, much of which stems from Gareth Edwards and his unabiding love for all things Star Wars.
- 12/23/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
The first stand-alone film in the “Star Wars” franchise “Rogue One,” about the daughter (Felicity Jones) of the unwilling designer (Mads Mikkelsen) of the Death Star and her mission to retrieve his plans for destroying it, has been in theaters for a week and has already grossed over $388 million. The film is a direct prequel to the events of the original 1977 film “Star Wars,” or “A New Hope,” a film that still remains in the cultural imagination. Now in a lengthy interview with Little White Lies, “Rogue One” director Gareth Edwards (“Godzilla”) says that Lucasfilm has finished a 4K restoration of “A New Hope.”
Read More: ‘Rogue One’ Review: The First ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff Is a Scrappy Space Adventure That Plays Things Painfully Safe
“On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic,” says Edwards, “and John Knowles, our supervisor, he said that they...
Read More: ‘Rogue One’ Review: The First ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff Is a Scrappy Space Adventure That Plays Things Painfully Safe
“On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic,” says Edwards, “and John Knowles, our supervisor, he said that they...
- 12/23/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Back in 2014 it was revealed that Reliance Media Works was converting the original Star Wars Trilogy to 4K. There haven't really been any updates on that over the years, but fans wondered if one day the 4K restored films would actually be released in theaters.
Thanks to Rogue One director Gareth Edwards, we now know that a 4K version of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope exists. How does he know? Because he actually sat down in a screening room at Lucasfilm and watched it! During an interview with Little White Lies, the director said:
"On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic and John Knowles, our supervisor, he said that they’ve got a brand new 4K restoration print of A New Hope – it had literally just been finished. He suggested we sit and watch it."
That would have been...
Thanks to Rogue One director Gareth Edwards, we now know that a 4K version of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope exists. How does he know? Because he actually sat down in a screening room at Lucasfilm and watched it! During an interview with Little White Lies, the director said:
"On day one, we were in Lucasfilm in San Francisco with Industrial Light and Magic and John Knowles, our supervisor, he said that they’ve got a brand new 4K restoration print of A New Hope – it had literally just been finished. He suggested we sit and watch it."
That would have been...
- 12/21/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Ryan Lambie Dec 19, 2016
Could 2017 finally see a restored 4K release of Star Wars: A New Hope, in time for its 40th anniversary? A new clue has surfaced...
Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, a question has persisted among Star Wars fans: might we one day see a restored, unedited version of the Original Trilogy, either in theatres or on disc? That is, pristine editions of the first three movies without those digital additions George Lucas made back in the late 90s.
See related The Expendables 4 and The Expendabelles still happening
Lucas long maintained that such a restoration was either impossible - because the negatives were "permanently altered" for the creation of the Special Editions - or simply too expensive. Yet in 2014, it emerged that a company called Reliance Media Works was converting Star Wars Original Trilogy to 4K, which led to all kinds of excitable theories that the original theatrical cuts...
Could 2017 finally see a restored 4K release of Star Wars: A New Hope, in time for its 40th anniversary? A new clue has surfaced...
Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, a question has persisted among Star Wars fans: might we one day see a restored, unedited version of the Original Trilogy, either in theatres or on disc? That is, pristine editions of the first three movies without those digital additions George Lucas made back in the late 90s.
See related The Expendables 4 and The Expendabelles still happening
Lucas long maintained that such a restoration was either impossible - because the negatives were "permanently altered" for the creation of the Special Editions - or simply too expensive. Yet in 2014, it emerged that a company called Reliance Media Works was converting Star Wars Original Trilogy to 4K, which led to all kinds of excitable theories that the original theatrical cuts...
- 12/19/2016
- Den of Geek
When I was growing up, New York 's best (now long-defunct) classical radio station, Wncn, played only American composers' music each Fourth of July. With the classical world dominated by Europeans, this was a welcome and educational corrective. In the history of American music, independence wasn't achieved until the 20th century; 19th century composers such as John Knowles Paine and George Whitefield Chadwick studied in Europe and blatantly imitated European models. Listening to their music "blind," few would guess they were Americans. There was Revolutionary War-era vocal writer William Billings, but his originality was more a lack of proper technique. Continuing Wncn's tradition, here's a look at true American classical. music.
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
There is a bit of chauvinism in this article, as "American" here refers not to all the Americas (North, Central, and South) but rather the colloquial usage in the United States to mean that country's residents (hence, the Mexican Carlos Chavez,...
- 7/4/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Versatile British film director known for Bullitt, The Deep and Breaking Away
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
- 1/11/2011
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- Director Peter Yates died Sunday, his agent confirmed Monday morning. He was 81.Probably most famous for the 60?s cop thriller "Bullitt" starring Steve McQueen, Yates had a string of cult titles to his name, including the Robert Redford-starrer "The Hot Rock" in 1972, "The Deep" in 1977, the 1979 coming-of-age/cycling drama "Breaking Away," the 1983 Oscar-nominated drama "The Dresser" and 1983's "Krull!"He was nominated for four Oscars, two as director and two as producer, for "Breaking Away" and "The Dresser."Most recently, he returned to directing for television, helming adaptations of John Knowles' "A Separate Piece" and Cervantes' "Don Quixote."His last feature film was "Curtain Call" in 1999.He is survived by his wife, Virginia Pope, his son and a daughter.A private family funeral will be held.– The Hollywood Reporter...
- 1/10/2011
- backstage.com
Synesthesia fascinates me. No, I'm not talking about the Japanese thriller about a serial killer with the disorder, I'm talking about the disorder itself. Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which one's sensory pathways became crossed, resulting in perception associations that are otherwise unrelated. For example, some people who suffer from synesthesia always think of the color blue when they also think of the number 3, or when they hear the words "mashed potatoes" they taste bacon. Yes, it's a very abnormal affliction, my question is...does this ever happen to you with movies?
I can think of one specific title that applies to me. The 1980 film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton, is inextricably (and inexplicably) linked in my mind with John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace. I have absolutely no idea why, but I cannot watch more than...
I can think of one specific title that applies to me. The 1980 film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton, is inextricably (and inexplicably) linked in my mind with John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace. I have absolutely no idea why, but I cannot watch more than...
- 4/20/2010
- by Peter Hall
- Cinematical
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